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Cath Senker – author, editor, RLF Consultant Fellow and Academic Skills Consultant

I have nearly 30 years’ experience in publishing and have written around 160 books for children of all ages, specialising in history, biography, global
and social issues, world religions, human geography and environmental topics. In April 2018, my title Far From Home, Refugees and Migrants Fleeing War, Persecution and Poverty was long-listed for the SLA Information Book Award.

 

I have written two non-fiction titles for adults, Cybercrime and the Darknet and Stranded in the Six-Day War, the extraordinary story of the 14 merchant ships trapped in the Suez Canal at the start of the Six-Day War in June 1967 (see below).

 

I undertake project management of books for children and adults as well as editorial work on educational and craft books; children’s fiction and non-fiction educational and trade titles; academic reports and online materials. I am a Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow, running writing development
workshops for undergraduate and postgraduate students. In May 2018, I was appointed by the University of Sussex as an Academic Skills Consultant.

Stranded in the Six-Day War

This is a brilliantly researched and written account of an almost forgotten incident in the 1967 Middle East war. It’s full of tasty nuggets of detail. The war stranded ships that were passing through the Suez Canal, and created a unique community of marooned seafarers. Recommended.

Jeremy Bowen, August 2017 (BBC Middle East editor and author of Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East)

Please scroll down for further reviews.

You can buy the book:

1 (UK only) By posting a cheque for £14.50 incl P&P payable to Ms C R Senker with your name and address to:
4th Floor, 60 Lansdowne Place
Hove BN3 1FG, East Sussex

2 From City Books, Hove and the Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool for £11.99.

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One of the benefits of being an historian is the opportunity to tell the stories of those on the margin of events who are usually ignored and forgotten and give them a place in the larger picture. Cath Senker has performed this service magnificently. The fact that fourteen merchant ships were trapped in the Suez Canal between June 1967 and June 1975 seemed destined to be just a footnote in the histories of this most intractable of conflicts but the author has rescued a collection of unpublished material and other ephemera and given it some permanence. (John Goble, former seafarer, June 2018)

This book is a wonderful account of merchant seafarers’ cooperation and formation of a community despite the national and political divides of the Cold War; all while the major players in the Cold War used the Israeli/Palestinian/Arab conflict as a football in their ideological/ political ‘game’. A timely addition to your background reading if interested in the on-going problems for all concerned in the Middle East. (Gerrie Purcell, April 2018)